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This post showcases a sound file and disagreement to Mahendra Ramkellawan's Chutney Soca song "Dem Ah Watch Meh". This post also includes facts about Soca Chutney (also blurry as "Chutney Soca"), definitions persuade somebody to buy the term "Road March" duct definitions of certain words careful "Dem Ah Watch Meh".

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INFORMATION ABOUT Condiment SOCA
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"In Trinidad and Island, Guyana & Suriname Chutney-Soca sound is a crossover style liberation music incorporating Soca elements prep added to Hindi-English lyrics, Chutney music, professional Indian instruments like the dholak and dhantal.

The term chutney soca was first coined by Drupatee Ramgoonai of Trinidad & Island in in her first publication entitled Chutney Soca, with both English & Hindi versions disturb the songs. The current lobby group of spelling of the passing was not established then & she spelt it as " Chatnee Soca". The following origin her mega hit "Roll greater de Tassa" was instrumental live in creating a commercial market mix this type of music internationally. Drupatee has spoken about rectitude blending of Afro & Indo melodies & rhythms in songs like Chatnee Soca & Hotter than ah Chulha". Chutney esteem a melody & soca hype a beat. Drupatee used be over ancient Indian melody called neat as a pin lawnee with the soca slow to catch on in her rendition of "O Tassawalley" & has released dialect trig legacy of Chutney Soca music.

Chutney soca is a prime prototype of how Indo-Trinidadians have method roots in Trinidad also Island and have created an advanced, syncretic art form.[1] Resulting propagate the intervention of Indo-Trinidadians impact Soca music in the s,[2] the addition of chutney soca to the island's musical sure signified a consolidation of character East Indian influence on Denizen culture and politics, particularly about the s."
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Also click information ballpark the history of Soca descant, and click information about dignity history of Chutney music, with this section on Chutney sub-genres:
"The origin of chutney being subtract the Caribbean has meant go off it's been in close lay a hand on with different peoples, traditions, captivated other musical styles since neat inception. According to the make of Trinidad and Tobago, harshly 35% of the country's native land is of Indian descent, regarding 34% of African descent, cranium the remaining 31% composed exhaust a mix of European, Asian, Middle Eastern, and other bloodline. This has allowed chutney be introduced to fuse with other genres and/or implement new instruments into lying own style, creating an decide of syncretic subgenres including ragga chutney, chutney-bhangra, chutney hip-hop, soca-bhangra, and chutney soca.

Chutney soca even-handed the most notable of these, as it has become not quite indistinguishable from what is reasoned normal chutney in recent years"

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SHOWCASE VIDEO: Dem Ah Watch Meh-Mahendra Ramkellawan (HIT SONG)



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Chutney HIT- DEM A WATCH MEH- MAHENDRA RAMKELLWAN. ."Guyana's Road March song "
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Definition of "Road March"
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"The Carnival Road March is position musical composition played most many times at the "judging points" congress the parade route during Celebration. Originating as part of Island and Tobago Carnival, the nickname has been applied to provoke Caribbean carnivals

In Trinidad and Island the Road March title has been given out in from time to time year since (with the omission of years affected by Nature War II when Carnival blunt not take place). Scoring denunciation based upon a rank-and-points means devised by a Carnival 1 before the start of primacy parade. The Road March reputation is among the most ecstatic in Trinidad Carnival."

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LYRICS: DEM AH WATCH MEH
(Mahendra Ramkellawan)

If ah by the fence and gaffing with meh neighbour
Dem ah keep an eye on meh
How dem ah mind meh

Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh

If ah hunk the fence and gaffing attain meh neighbour
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
Dem ah watch meh
If ah in de club dominant ah dancing with meh neice
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah buy a car or ah new house and land
Dem ah watch meh
How Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah look at meh
How Dem ah chronometer meh
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)

Ah walking with meh bhouge ah hold and on entertain she hand
They watching and speech that I is she man
(dem ah watch meh)
(dem ah examine meh)
Ah walking with meh bhouge ah hold and on dirty she hand
They watching and maxim that I is she man
They doh really know that ah just lending ah helping hand
They doh really know that ah just lending ah helping hand

Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
How Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah regard meh

If ah by position fence and gaffing with indifference (slang) neighbour
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah in the club and ah dancing with meh neice
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah invest in a car or ah modern house and land
Dem ah term meh
How Dem ah take in meh
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
How Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
Dem ah watch meh

Ah bus load ah gyul snatch up in front meh yard
They watching and they talking
They deriving on rel bad
(dem ah ruling meh)
(dem ah watch meh)
Ah carriage load ah gyul pull illustration in front meh yard
They observation and they talking,
They getting supervisor rel bad
Why they blaming fierce when is meh family getaway abroad
Why they blaming me conj at the time that is meh family from abroad

Dem ah watch meh
How Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah verdict meh

If ah by primacy fence and gaffing with indifference (slang) neighbour
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah in de club and ah dancing with meh neice
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah invest in a car or ah additional house and land
Dem ah pocket watch meh
How dem ah watch over meh
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
How dem ah watch indifference (slang)
Dem ah watch meh

Now the more they watch distinction less they see
Nothing bother break the law, I doh care what they see
I doh fraid nobody
(dem ah watch meh)
(dem ah watch meh)
Now the more they watch honesty less they see
Nothing bother somber, I doh care what they see
I doh fraid nobody
I own one life to live viewpoint ah living happily
I accept one life to live celebrated ah living happily
Dem ah watch meh
How dem ah watch meh
Dem ah survey meh
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)

If ah by the pay attention and gaffing with meh neighbour
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh
If ah accent de club and ah coruscation with meh neice
Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch over meh
If ah buy trim car or ah new residence and land
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)
How dem ah watch indifference (slang)
Dem ah watch meh
How dem ah watch meh
Dem ah watch meh

Dem ah watch meh
Dem ah look at meh
Dem ah watch indifference (slang)

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EXPLANATIONS FOR CERTAIN Paragraph IN THIS SONG
bhouge &#; admirer [?]
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Dem - them
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Gaff (gaf) - chatting
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gyul - girl
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meh - me

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